I could shoot a person and not lose votes

He is said to be most interested in making a bid if Democrats nominate Sanders and Republicans nominate Trump or Cruz. “His powerful voice and passion played a critical role in my Senate victory and I am now proud to have him in our corner in 2016”, said Mr. Cruz.

Beck campaigned for Ted Cruz and held little back in going after Trump.

At least that is what he told supporters during a rally in Sioux Center, Iowa on Saturday.

Cruz, in a dogfight with Trump for top billing in Iowa, launched an early-state offensive here meant to tear into Trump’s position of strength by exposing his record on his signature issue: immigration. The senator accuses the tycoon of being an opportunist with no real attachment to conservative values.

Last August, two white men who allegedly beat a homeless Hispanic man cited Donald Trump’s rhetoric as their motive. Both are aggressively courting evangelical voters, Tea Partiers and social conservatives in Iowa. The Washington Post reported Trump emphasized the point that his supporters were fiercely loyal.

Beck was one of the writers in the recent National Review issue criticizing Republican front-runner Donald Trump, in which he wrote, “If Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination, there will once again be no opposition to an ever-expanding government”.

“There are understandable reasons for his eminence, and he has shown impressive gut-level skill as a campaigner”. During his speech, Trump called Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly biased and said she should not be a moderator at a Fox-hosted Republican debate in Des Moines on Thursday.

Some party stalwarts however have welcomed Trump. Veteran senator Bob Dole, the party’s presidential candidate in 1996, has the same opinion.

He blasted Trump’s past reluctance to strip federal money from Planned Parenthood and cast the billionaire’s plan to deport more than 11 million people who are in country illegally as “amnesty” because he would then let many of them return.

“It’s incredible that I live in a place where the son of a bartender and a maid can have the same dreams and the same future as a son of a president and the son of an immigrant”, Rubio told voters in Indianola Saturday evening.

“Whether it’s death by being shot or poisoning, does it really matter?”